David La Chapelle, the photographer that worked with Andy Warhol.

David La Chapelle: began taking photographs in high school. At the age of 18, at the end of the 70s, he moved from North Carolina to New York's Lower East Side. After a chance meeting with Andy Warhol, he began shooting for Interview, the place he calls "art school." He is a product of 70s youth, sub-divisions, suburbia, pot-smoking, and a mom with a knack for appropriating a fantasy life onto film. His use of colors …

…monstrosities are that breed of gaunt, blemishless human built and enslaved by heavy makeup, lighting and the glorifying voodoo of photographic attention, e.g., models, transsexuals and ... leonardo di caprio. it is a prophecy of even scurvier spiritual illness yet to come from our media-centric society, in the not-so-distant future. --- in the last years he also created music videos: the station promo he directed for MTV, which recast a scene from the tragi-camp classic